Converting Audio Files to MP3

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If there’s one thing that the computer world isn’t short of, it’s audio file formats. There are literally dozens of them. You’ve probably heard of a few, like WAV, WMA, RAM, ACC, FLAC , OGG , and others. It can be a confusing maze of acronyms and formats that leaves your head spinning.

It’s safe to say that MP3 is the most popular audio format around. It’s supported by every digital audio player on the market and in every media player – regardless of whether you’re using Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Not every audio file that you encounter will be an MP3, though. As such, you might not be able to play it on your MP3 player or media player. To get the file to play on your hardware or software, your best bet is to transform it to MP3

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    Posted by John Tech  on  11/13  at  06:45 AM

  1. Thanks,
    I often work with a variety of music files, from live recordings of events. These are large files that need to be shared via e-mail or disc. I also have a need to convert CD audio to a music score. Like can be done easily from a midi file.
    Does anyone know of software that does this conversion?
    Thanks,

    Johns tech

    2. Posted by Rafa  on  11/13  at  09:19 AM

  2. For those that have AAC files bought at iTunes and want to use them to an “MP3” player other than iPod, you can record those files on a CD audio and using iTunes to convert them to MP3, you will skip the painfully act of edit id tags for the “new” MP3 files.

    3. Posted by R.M. Simpson  on  11/13  at  12:15 PM

  3. Thanks for the “Letssaythanks” link.

    4. Posted by Fred Yontz  on  11/15  at  06:19 AM

  4. This Tech Tip is very informative and useful for me, covering more material that I didn’t already know than many of the other Tech Tips.  But I miss the joke that usually end the column — they’ve always been really good.

    5. Posted by Fred Heumann  on  11/15  at  10:20 AM

  5. Thanks for the tips on the two web sites.  I look forward to trying them out.  As a Mac head, I hate having to deal with WMA files and this could be the easy solution.

    6. Posted by rayratliff  on  11/29  at  08:44 AM

  6. Tried to put Spanish lesson on Sansa M230 mp3 player.  Unit now only turns on, initializes and turns itself off.  Tried to reinstall software and same result now.  I did not convert to MP3 because Spanish box indicated it was MP3 compatible.  How do I actually convert to mp3 and get the player to function again?

    Thanks,
    Ray

    7. Posted by John  on  12/07  at  05:25 AM

  7. Welcome John

    Using windows media player 11 to copy music to
    from a cd to sansa m240 san disk player.

    error message come up when trying to rip
    windows media player cannot rid one or more tracks from the cd
    close or web help when go to web help it tell me
    cd drive setting in device manager does not match the cd drive setting in the player

    it works fine in rhapsody

    thanks for any help you can send

    john

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